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Anderson Cooper

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Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist


    Benjamin Lyman

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    • 6th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 9th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 444 
    • Birth Date:
    • 10 Aug 1674 
    • Birth Location:
    • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 14 Oct 1723 
    • Death Location:
    • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 27 Oct 1698 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Joseph Lyman

      Daniel Lyman

      Medad Lyman (Ahnentafel No:222 )

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  • Sources for Benjamin Lyman

    • 1 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, pp. 25-26.
    • 4 Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Birth record for son Joseph Lyman/Limon.
    • 5 Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Birth record for Benjamin Lyman.
    • 6 Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Death record for Benjamin Lyman.
    • 7 Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Marriage record for Benjamin Lyman and Thankful Pumry.
    • 8 Coleman, Lyman, Genealogy of the Lyman Family, in Great Britain and America; the Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lyman from . . ., Albany, New York: J. Munsell (1872), 40.
    • 9 Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 148.
    • 10 Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 44, 54.

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